Novena and tar

Novena and tar

[Andreas Enge]

Hello,

after receiving my novena, I finally installed guix by the tarball on it.
This part went very smoothly. Then I tried
   guix build hello
and gcc, guile and so on were built correctly. But tar failed its tests:
  25: terminal input                                  FAILED (iotty.at:29)
  ERROR: 167 tests were run,
  3 failed (2 expected failures).
  21 tests were skipped.

Certainly another novena user must have had the problem before?

Andreas

Re: Novena and tar

[Mark H Weaver]

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:

> after receiving my novena, I finally installed guix by the tarball on it.
> This part went very smoothly. Then I tried
>    guix build hello
> and gcc, guile and so on were built correctly. But tar failed its tests:
>   25: terminal input                                  FAILED (iotty.at:29)
>   ERROR: 167 tests were run,
>   3 failed (2 expected failures).
>   21 tests were skipped.
>
> Certainly another novena user must have had the problem before?

This might be because the kernel you're running lacks the
CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES=y configuration option.

      Mark